Wells, Norfolk.—About 1.30 P.M. on the 8th December, 1937, information was received from a man and from the coastguard that a ship was flying a distress signal, and the motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee 1910-1935 was launched at 2.50 P.M....
OCTOBER 3RD. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.
At 8.50 at night a message was received from the Southern Railway Company that a small yacht had fired distress signals off the east pier. A west-north-west breeze was blowing, with a choppy...
here, Courtmacsherry harbour’s Solent class lifeboat offers one of the competitors a lifeline. - View image in PDF
Photo: Ambrose Greenway. - View image in PDF
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On the 15th June, a messenger on horseback arrived at An- strother from Fifeness, having been de- spatched for the life-boat by the coastguard there, in consequence of observing a brigan- tine with her foretopmast and topgallant- mast gone,...
The schooner Brenton, of Fowey, was observed with signals of distress flying, on the Skull Martin Rock, near Ballywalter, on the 4th December. The wind was blow- ing very fresh from N. to N.E., and a heavy sea was running at the time, render...
FEBRUARY 9TH. - BARRY DOCK, GLAMORGANSHIRE.
At 4.44 in the morning the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station at Nells Point telephoned that Burnham Radio had picked up a message from the S.S. Coulgorm, of Glasgow, that she was...
Dunbar, Haddingtonshire. — The steam trawler Pelagos, of Granton, ran ashore on South Carr rocks in a dense fog on the morning of the llth July, while returning to Granton from the North Sea fishing grounds. A moderate east breeze was...
Seaman's Cartoonist extraordinary, Carl Giles, receiving his lifeboatman statuette for outstanding service to the RNLI in the field of public relations from the Duke of Atholl.
photograph by courtesy of the 'Daily... - View image in PDF
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The schooner Ann, of Inverness, was approaching the Har- bour of Arbroath, on the evening of the 24th August, it then being an hour past high-water, and the wind blowing a strong gale from the S.W., when she struck on the rocks, about 400...
Terry Waite attended the naming ceremony of the new Harwich inshore lifeboat Sure and Steadfast. - View image in PDF
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